Karen Minnis is an Oregon Republican politician in United States. She was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1998 to 2009,and served as Speaker of the House from 2003 to 2007
Gresham High School is a public high school located in Gresham,Oregon,United States.
Derrick Kitts is a Republican politician from Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Washington,he served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives before giving up his seat in an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2006.
ChristineKotek is an American politician serving as the 39th governor of Oregon since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Kotek served eight terms as the state representative from the 44th district of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2007 to 2022,as majority leader of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013,and as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2013 to 2022. She won the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial election,defeating Republican nominee Christine Drazan and independent candidate Betsy Johnson.
Suzanne Marie Bonamici is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 1st congressional district,a seat she was first elected to in a 2012 special election. The district includes most of Portland west of the Willamette River,as well as all of Yamhill,Columbia,Clatsop,and Washington counties.
Brad Peter Avakian is an American politician who served as a Democrat in the Oregon House,the Oregon Senate,and as the state's nonpartisan elected Labor Commissioner.
Bruce Starr is an American politician and businessman in Oregon. A Republican,he served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives before winning election to the Oregon State Senate in 2002. There he joined his father Senator Charles Starr and they became the first father-son team to serve at the same time in Oregon's Senate. Bruce had previously been a member of the Hillsboro City Council,and was re-elected to the Senate in 2006 and 2010,but lost a bid in 2012 to be the Oregon Labor Commissioner.
Rod Monroe is a Canadian-born American politician who served in the Oregon Senate,representing District 24 in the middle part of Multnomah County,which includes most of eastern Portland and the city of Happy Valley.
Chuck Riley is an American politician who served as a member of the Oregon State Senate for the 15th district,which includes Hillsboro,Forest Grove,and Cornelius in western Washington County. He served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011.
Chris Telfer is a former Republican and current Independent Party of Oregon politician and Certified Public Accountant in Bend,Oregon,United States.
Kim Thatcher is an American politician currently serving as a member of the Oregon State Senate for the 11th district since 2023. She previously represented the 13th district from 2015 to 2023,and served as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives for the 25th district from 2005 to 2015. She is a resident of Keizer.
Lynn Snodgrass is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives. A Republican,she was elected Speaker in 1998,succeeding fellow Republican Lynn Lundquist. At the time,many Republicans felt Lundquist was too accommodating to Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber. Snodgrass was the first Portland-area Speaker since Vera Katz,whose term in that position ended in 1991.
Carolyn Tomei is a Democratic politician from the US state of Oregon. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives for District 41,representing Milwaukie and parts of Southeast Portland,including Sellwood and Eastmoreland from 2001 to 2015.
Sherrie Sprenger is a business owner and Republican politician from the US state of Oregon. A native of Linn County,she served in the Oregon House of Representatives for the 17th District from 2008 to 2021.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon were held on Tuesday,November 4,2014 to elect the five U.S. representatives from the state of Oregon,one from each of the state's five congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including the governor of Oregon and a United States senator. Primary elections were held on May 20,2014.
Gregory J. Matthews is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Oregon House of Representatives,where he represented District 50 from 2009 to 2015.
Carla Piluso is an American politician and former police officer. She was the first woman to serve as chief of the Gresham Police Department in Gresham,Oregon. In 2014,she won election as a Democrat to the Oregon House of Representatives,representing District 50. Piluso served in the Gresham Police Department for 30 years,beginning in 1979. She is also on the school board for the Gresham-Barlow School District. She was an unsuccessful candidate for Multnomah County commissioner in 2008.
The 2016 Oregon gubernatorial special election took place on November 8,2016,to elect the Governor of Oregon,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives,other gubernatorial elections and various state and local elections.
The 79th Oregon Legislative Assembly was the meeting of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from January 9,2017 until May 21,2018.
District 50 of the Oregon House of Representatives is one of 60 House legislative districts in the state of Oregon. It is currently represented by Democrat Ricki Ruiz of Gresham.
